In the early years of AIDS,  men and women with the HIV virus were widely seen as untouchables. The nurses who elected to care for them were stigmatised along with their patients.  But until now, their story has not been told.

Guests:

Geraldine Fela, author of ‘Critical care: Nurses on the frontline of Australia’s AIDS crisis’ (NewSouth), Historian, postdoctoral research fellow in Macquarie University’s Department of History and Archaeology

Marilyn Beaumont, Federal Secretary of the Nurses Union through the critical years of the AIDS epidemic

This story originally aired on 16 July 2024.